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. Patented Apr. 1, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. BURNETT, O BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR To H. L. JUDD & 00., OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.'

CURTAIN-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,127, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed December 24, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. BURNETT, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Curtain-Loops, of which the following is a specification.

Curtain-loops have usually been made of cords and gimp braided together to form a flat bandtaperingtowardtheends. Oordstwisted together or doubled have been used with and without tassels. These are usually hitched upon a hook or an ornamental nail or arm. In some instances metallic chains have been employed for curtain-loops, and helices of wire have also been used in making curtain-loops.

The object of my present invention is to render thecurt-ain-loop sufficiently flexible to allow it to bend into the form desired, and at the same time sufficiently firm. to prevent it sagging down and closely compressing the curtain, thereby causing the curtain to hang more handsomely. Furthermore, the curtainloop is improved in its appearance and better adapted to the intended use than the loops heretofore on the market. I make use of a tube made of wires braided together to form the curtain-loop. Usually the wire is suffi ciently fine for several to be braided together side by side to form such wire tube, and one, two, or more of such wire tribes are employed in the loop. Where two or more tubes are used they are plaited or twisted together and secured attheends, and there are wire rings or links at the ends, by which thecurtain-loop is connected with the hook, pin, or arm on the window-casingl l .In the drawings, Figure 1 is a View of the curtain-loop complete; and Fig. 2 is a. sec tional view, representing the tubular character of the wire as laid up. Fig, 3 is a part of the loop, showing the braiding in each wire tube.

Thewires usually employed by me are of polished brass and lacquered, or otherwise preserved from tarnishing; but wire of any metal of convenient size may be. employed. It is braided up into the form of a tube, one, two, or more wires being used in each of the strands, braided together. Usually four or five wires will be used in each strand, the same lying flatwise side by side, and as interlaced by the braiding they have a mottled or checkered surface. These braided-wire tubes may be used singly to form the curtain-loop; but it is generally preferable to braid or twist two or more together, as'shown, and they may each be left hollow; or cords of fibrous material may be used as fillings to the wire tubes. The Wire tubes a a are provided with rings or links I) b at their ends, and usually there will be a hollow ball, 0, into which the ends of the wire tubes are received andsecured, these balls or shells c intervening between the wire tubes and the links.

This curtain-loop may be used as. an ornament upon lambrequins or upholstered articles, or as a loop for curtains or shade-pulls.

I claim as my invention I 1. The curtain or upholstery loop composed of wires braided together to form tubes, and provided with loops or links at the ends, substantially as set forth.

2. The curtain or upholstery loop composed of three or more tubes of braided wires braided together and provided with the end pieces, 0, substantially as set forth.

. 3. The curtain or upholstery loop composed of two or more tubes of wire laid together, each tube being formed of wires braided together, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, in a curtain-loop or similar article, oftwo or more tubes of braided wires laid together and provided with end pieces, a, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 18th day of December,

BENJ. F. BURNETT.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM G. MOTT, GEO. T. PINCKNEY. 

